Posted on 08/18/2007 4:51:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
When viewed as a whole, The Padilla conviction, the AP and NYT reactions to it, the recent confession at MSNBC that most young journalists are ‘activists’ and liberals, the newsroom booing at the President and the blatant anti-Bush vitriol of the Daily Kos and MoveOn.org, is anyone surprised that a majority of Americans no longer trust the press as a source of unbiased news and wish they were more pro-American? Add to that the growing liberal-left chorus demanding a return to the so-called Fairness Doctrine [read that as gagging conservative talk-show hosts], and you come to the conclusion that the 1st Amendment is under attack from a liberal-facist machine hitherto unseen in the American democratic process. Their mantra is chillingly simple: “We have seen the enemy and the enemy us us!”
MSM: Padilla innocent of being a terorist, Libby guilty of outting a covert CIA agent.
Well, he's wrong :)
In Iraq AP uses native Iraqi reporters and cameramen—often insurgent agents or sympathizers—to cover breaking news which is considered too dangerous for their own staffers to cover. Readers and viewers get a totally distorted, biased view of events.
It seems our media is more concerned with convicting and jailing Scooter Libby than with a terrorist as Padilla.
Is it any wonder they are referred to as the ‘Dinosaur’ media?
All safely home, no problem -- unless U.S. forces in Afghanistan discover Al Qaeda records with their names and addresses on applications to join the jihad against us.
"It wasn't a terrorist operation. It was a relief operation," said Jayyousi attorney William Swor.
To be fair, during the Russian invasion there were Muslims from many countries including the U.S. going there for relief operations as well as to be a martyr. So the attorney's statement was plausible but was it true in this case? Apparently the evidence convinced the jury, no it wasn't.
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